Islamic Sisterhood

The Meaning of Veiling in Post-9/11 New York

Etsuko Maruoka-Donnelly (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

144 Seiten

2018 | Unabridged edition
Cambridge Scholars Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-5275-0852-1 (ISBN)

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Muslims have been major targets of hate crimes and discrimination in the US since 9/11. Anti-Muslim resentment increased again after Donald Trump won the U.S. presidency and revitalized far-right politics. In this hostile environment, why do many young Muslim women choose to wear a headscarf and publicly display their Islamic identity? This book unravels this puzzle by drawing on sociological insights and three years of ethnographic study with Muslim adolescents in New York during the post-9/11 backlash. It finds that young, American-born Muslim women choose to cover their hair and bodies not simply out of spiritual devotion to Islamic fundamentalism, but also, and primarily, to cope with social adversity rooted in sexism, racism, and patriarchy in both their ethnic community and the larger Western society. This book will appeal to scholars, students and other readers interested in the Muslim diaspora, gender, race and ethnicity, youth, immigration, and social movements.

An award winning author, Dr Etsuko Maruoka-Donnelly received her PhD in Sociology in 2008, and is currently an Associate Professor of Sociology at Suffolk County Community College in New York. Her studies on ethnic minorities in the US have earned awards from the American Sociological Association, the Eastern Sociological Association, the New York State Sociological Association, and other research institutions. She has contributed to the Encyclopedia of Racism in the United States (edited by Pyong Gap Min) and published articles in Teaching Sociology, Journal of African and Asian Studies, and other academic journals.

Erscheinungsdatum	09.08.2018
Verlagsort	Newcastle upon Tyne
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 212 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Islam
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10	1-5275-0852-8 / 1527508528
ISBN-13	978-1-5275-0852-1 / 9781527508521
Zustand	Neuware